Travesty! A case of shameless plagiarism: Lang’s Metropolis was unoriginal. It was a composite of Shelly’s Frankenstein, the silent, Nesferatu, which stars Max Schreck as a ghoul, and also, predominately Мы, the Russian poetic novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It was written by anonymous – D-503, another cipher in unif. The book is his quotidian diary [...]
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The Sunset Smoke Sutra
Be standing as the sun goes down no matter how much you may want to sit. This is an holy moment. Show piety to the Osirises making their way to light up the adumbral underworld. Think: The sovereign flag of blue and red waves to the right of your head knocks the smoke, the breath [...]
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A Folded Note in My Pocketbook
Whoever wrote me this note I find written in girlish print on Clarion Hotel stationary? “Just when everything adds up to nothing and anything hurts to begin. Turn around. Lose keys, lose eyes. Let go of friends. Divorce so easy sometimes [illegible]ime (I’m me?) I’m dead.” – Shaina – 1st Being Venice, CA I have [...]
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On the Internet Engine
Wires should drop straight to the floor rather than bunch, coiled on desks. Burn this Email. I am writing at once three different things: continuous story, fragmentary poem and slew of informative messages. I am tweeting to my Twitter followers. Facebooking the book that I am authoring. Telling friends to call me*. I have something [...]
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The Renunciation
God is within me, eh? You are an idiot. Am I, this voice inside your head, then God? Well then, noble seeker, he said sarcastically, here I am, you need go no further. Abruptly the diatribe took on a plaintive tone. Don’t go. Look what you’re leaving: your beloved wife, your family. All of your [...]
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Reverse Alchemy
He shooed away a few munchkins and dropped the brick at her feet. “Could you please render this gold into straw for me?,” he requested her politely. “I need it to make a scarecrow,” he explained frankly. “I thought you had left,” she said puzzled. “You said you never wanted to see me again.” “I [...]
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Apparitions in the Storm
The flash of lightning stunned him. He then was jarred by the rumbling thunder. A shadowy apparition emerged out of the limited distance through which he could see in the heavy storm. It marched in the opposite direction, off to his left, and without having become any clearer, was gone. Another followed next; this one [...]
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The Origin of Christ Superman
A young American boy named Clark grew up keeping it secret that he was different from everyone else. At the age of seven he found that he had superhuman strength: he could lift a car over his heard. At twelve he was able to fly: one night he dreamt himself a bird and woke up [...]
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The Rape of Ariadne
As a girl I was interested in butterflies and spiders. I read picture books on caterpillars, cocoons, chrysalises, etcetera. I could spend hours examining the patterns in the final butterfly’s wings. The process intrigued me most, however: the metamorphosis. I studied the way the worm wove with silk the casing in which it would die [...]
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The Effects of the Mystical Flute
The tootles of the flute unsteady him. He senses vibrational currents as levels of bodies of water. First, the one surrounding his head, starting at his neck and comprising the entire sky, gently urges his mind and causes him to think cardinal things that an instant later he cannot recollect. The ocean he perceives sinks [...]
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